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It just doesn't really make financial sense, a lot of software is not a significant cost to many companies. For example my company pays something like $50/month for newsletter sending software. We could easily vibe code an alternative but why bother? $50 is a rounding error in our business costs, even a single bug or outage in the replacement would make it a terrible decision.

On the other hand if you're a business with 50k employees and you have to pay $10/seat for something that's a much more compelling case to build in house (but then it always was). So maybe with vibe coding it drops the cutoff to a lower number?

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The non-financial sense is that $50 newsletter still being a business, it becomes freeware / open source / cloned by someone that used to write that enterprise level, and is now struggling financially.

And that newsletter? How much of that is AI now, and do people read it?

We're in the midst of a huge cultural and economic shift, and where this ball of confusion goes is unknown, but it certainly will not stay the same.




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